The Compass Pointe House is a recently completed contemporary home in Whistler, Canada. The home’s layout & design was the creation of Sean Anderson of Progressive Concept Design, while the interior & exterior finishes were completed by Kelly Deck, who provided contemporary touches that were inspired by the natural surroundings. from contemporist
Nearly 4 years after the competition for a new administration building of the Schwandorf Incineration Plant in Bavaria, Germany was won by Stuttgart-based archimedialab, this unique ensemble of building and landscape has now been officially inaugurated. Here is how archimedialab describe their project: The task to design a new administration building, reorganize the power station compound and cr..
Architect Pieta-Linda Auttila has completed a prototype holiday home in Helsinki, Finland, featuring a sculptural, wooden trellis between two box-like ends. Called the WISA Wooden Design Hotel and created for Finnish forest products brand UPM Kymmene, the building is made of pine, spruce and birch grown in Finland. The two solid volumes house sleeping and living areas, with large windows in each..
From dawn til dusk on Saturday, July 25, artists Heather and Ivan Morison led a crew of volunteers to build a remarkable temporary public artwork in Victoria Park in Bristol, UK. The pavilion-like timber structure, The Black Cloud, was commissioned by Situations at the University of the West of England, and designed in collaboration with architect graduate Sash Reading. It will act as a meeting ..
The House 53 volumetry was defined following São Paulo city building laws and the site’s peculiar shape, which is just over 10 meters in front and approximately 30 meters in length. According to the legislation one can build in the neighborhood up to a two-floor building, settled upon the site’s lateral limits. A third floor is allowed as long as the lateral setbacks are respected. The house was..
drdh architects sent us this house with a long previous story. Speculatively built by 19th Century developers, it has been adapted and distorted over time to suit circumstance - acquiring a single storey shop and basement, an extra storey, a cantilevered lavatory and a garage. Of more immediate concern was the basement, where the floor had been dug out and the corbels sheared off the party walls..
Most city parts of Almere, a city with almost 190,000 inhabitants, have a petting farm. In the 'den Uyl' park there used to be one, but it burned down in the early 80's, leaving only its concrete foundation. Early 2005 we were commissioned by the municipality of Almere to design a new petting farm on the exact location and the remaining foundation. The building was finally built using almost onl..
Architects: Neeson Murcutt Architects Location: Sydney, Australia Principals in Charge: Rachel Neeson, Nicholas Murcutt Project team: Andrew Burns, Amelia Holiday, Jeff Morgan, Sean Choo, David Coleborne Builder: Coddington Constructions Pty Ltd Landscape Architect: Sue Barnsley Design Structural Engineer: Tihanyi Consulting Engineers Hydraulic Engineer: ACOR Consultants Geotechnical: Geotechniq..
Architects: Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos Location: Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil Architects in Charge: Fernando Forte, Lourenço Gimenes and Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz Collaborators: Renata Davi, Renata Buschinelli Goes, Luiz Florence, Adriana Junqueira, Paloma Delgado, Ivo Magaldi, André Malheiros, Luciana Muller, Débora Zeppellini, Marília Caetano, Nilton Rossi, Ana Paula Barbosa L..
Architects: C-Laboratory Location: Sanjhih, Taipei County, Taiwan Project and Construction team: Marco Casagrande, Frank Chen, Shi-Ding Chen, Nikita Wu, Shu-Gi Bai Local Knowledge: Missis Lee Site Area: 3,890 sqm Building foot print: 138 sqm Interior space: 62.5 sqm Materials: mahogany, concrete Completed: 2008 Photographs: C-Lab The house is realized on an old Japanese cherry-farm in the Datun ..
